I was trying to decide what kind of Christmas cookies to make this year, and it definitely felt like a good time to bring back my dumpster fire cookies from 2020 🙃

Great Egret 🪶 📷 #birdoftheday #heronsandegrets

Trump and Bondi are working to make any form of protest into a federal crime and to reorient all national and local "law enforcement" around crushing it. The cash reward system and calls for citizens to inform on their neighbors should be terrifying to anyone with the slightest grasp of history.

Jonathan V Last: The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. Instead be very focused on efforts to subvert or undermine free and fair elections, because that's next in the authoritarian playbook.

Victor is right. Promotion of the word "wokeness" allows right-wingers to pretend their racism and sexism is issues-oriented rather than hate-oriented.

couldn’t have said it any better myself

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?

Today my law firm secured a quarter-billion dollar verdict in New Mexico against Michelin for defects in their tires that threaten all of our lives on the roadway, and I don’t think you’ll see a single news story about it. Corporate malfeasance thrives in the shadows.

A Pacific Brown Pelican cruising along the coast at LaJolla, CA for #flyday #eastcoastkin🪶📷

Exactly where are their headquarters? Oh wait...we know ARLINGTON CEMETERY

Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency. But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...

A president doesn’t get to decide which news you watch. But a dictator does.

They see me rollin' They hatin' Patrollin' Tryna catch me Summa Theologica

It’s striking how many of the most mundane features of American democracy, built centuries ago to protect against remembered tyrants from centuries prior, are still the bulwark against Trumpian fascism, while all the newfangled modern institutions simply collapsed on first contact with him

In a major speech today, Stephen Miller says if we "subtracts out the immigration" (meaning, presumably, immigrants), the test scores of American students would rise. Actually, the precise opposite is true.

The Albuquerque election was a referendum on whether the city should cooperate with or obstruct ICE and CBP operations. Those for obstruction won by a two-to-one margin.

Murder is comedy gold!

This is why Trump said he didn't like the Netflix bid. He's invested in it. Paramount is already owned by the Ellisons, with Kushner and Saudi + PE involved. They want as many media outlets under Trump's control before the midterms. Another case study in corruption.

Actual governance is just one big joke to these people.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... Saw this on tonight’s news and thought it was worth sharing. 🌱

Everyone I know is sick, almost all of them sound like Dracula, and I'm coming to the realization we will not have any idea what any of this shit even is until the Felchfather is out of office.

Sounds like “death panels” to me.

Stepped out to fill the heated birdbath that sits outside my family room and spotted this little guy in the snow. For perspective, it’s walking away from the house toward the yard. Holes in the snow are from melting snow and ice chunks that have been falling from the roofline all day. 🕷️ 🌱

David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy. Corruption on display.

It never ceases to amaze me how gentle animals and tolerant wildlife can be with their young. This cub enjoyed some play time with its very patient and attentive mom. #bear #brownbear #bearcub #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #grizzly #grizzlybear

The black hat on the Wilson's Warbler is so stylish! Also kind of looks like greaser's hair 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM M, f/7.1, 1/320, ISO 1600, 500mm 5/5/24 Northern Oregon Coast #birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography 🦉 🪶

The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting. But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.

♫ Yakety Sax .mp3 ♫

JUST IN: Trump personally asserts executive privilege to protect 4K+ documents/messages from discovery in J6 civil suit. Court given very bare bones list. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... As first reported by POLITICO last week w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social

it feels conspiratorial and hyperbolic to acknowledge it, but it really is true

ChrisO_wiki: A sign of the times: the US military Southcom tweets an image of a soldier with a Jerusalem Cross—used by violent white supremacists groups—on his helmet. The symbol isn't part of any official US military insignia, but it is being promoted by Hegseth.

Trump and Putin national security strategies align perfectly. How is that possible? This headline captures the moment we find ourselves in: “The Kremlin praises new US security strategy as Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine.”

The “Throw Rug of nightmares”, for fish anyway.

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.

To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.

It’s 4° F with lots of snow cover here this morning, so naturally my thoughts turned to somewhere warm. Back in 2010 just outside San Diego I encountered this Ring-Necked Duck among other waterfowl. 📷 🪶

Minn AG Keith Ellison on my show explains that The head of massive fraud ring in Minnesota was NOT a Somali American as Trump claims. Rather a white woman named Aimee Bock was convicted as being the mastermind. But Trump spewed this lie to give his base some racist red meat.

Basically, a former Republican FBI director took a job that made him management for the Russian mob. Sound familiar? On top of that, Sessions' son is now a Republican congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas.

🧵Just remember—Reagan appointed a crooked dirtbag named William S. Sessions to run the FBI. By the time Clinton got into office, allegations of misconduct were piling up, so Sessions was fired. He then became the personal attorney of the boss-of-all-bosses of the Russian mob, Semion Mogelevich.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Interviewing Eddie Johnson or Garry McCarthy about proper law enforcement tactics is inexcusable. "What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

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